Relevant to this thread<br><br>Rachel Botsman: The currency of the new economy is trust | Video on TED.com<br><br><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/rachel_botsman_the_currency_of_the_new_economy_is_trust.html" target="_blank">http://www.ted.com/talks/rachel_botsman_the_currency_of_the_new_economy_is_trust.html</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 September 2012 20:34, Denis Postle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:d.postle@btinternet.com" target="_blank">d.postle@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Reputation metric makes me squirm.� Any form of
Scientific Method and I mean 'Form" that is attempted is
dubious at best, and will fail to garner results.� The
existential chit chat with colleagues may be more useful.<br>
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<div>with all the thousands of them, with many of which I've
never had and will have a chance to mee person?</div>
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<div>reputation in small, face-to-face groups is easy</div>
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Not in my experience over the last decade and a half - 'reputation',
where for instance something like civic accountability is at issue,
is a demanding form of work, or production.<br>
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What we have found (this work is also a form of cooperative inquiry)
is that a key element in the assessing of reputation is the
establishment of trust. Trust tends to based on disclosure - you
want high levels of trust - then create a safe space where high
levels of disclosure are encouraged/tolerated - and as I have
mentioned in the earlier message where the distribution of power is
also under close scrutiny by everyone involved.<br>
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Scaling remains a question for us in IPN but this network of 150 or
so people has run on completely non-hierarchical lines for 17
years,� a treasurer, yes, but no chair, no offices. In that time
there have been around 50 national gatherings of 20-30
self-selecting people who, without even facilitation, make decisions
about resources, policy and promotion. <br>
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Collaboration in networks of peers seems necessarily to grow from
the original kernels of creative commitment and trust, plus endless
patience with negotiation, ie lots of 'existential chit chat'.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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<div>when we also want to collaborate in large, global networks
of peers, then we need something more feasible than
the�existential chit chat, IMHO</div>
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Denis Postle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:d.postle@btinternet.com" target="_blank">d.postle@btinternet.com</a>></span>
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <font face="Trebuchet MS">Hi Robin,<br>
I don't know how you would apply it to complementary
currencies</font> but various versions of the
arrangements you outline have been in place for 17 years
in <a href="http://i-p-n.org/" target="_blank">The Independent Practitioner Network
[IPN]</a> that I belong to in the UK. Smaller groups
than you mention, 5-8, meet every six weeks or so. Their
task is get to know each other well enough to be able to
'stand by' their work with clients (a reputation
'metric'?). For me the strong version of this derives
from <a href="http://www.human-inquiry.com/asre.htm" target="_blank">'self and peer assessment'</a> based
on a list of mutually agreed criteria, which is what you
seem to be suggesting.<br>
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I have written about this extensively, see my
forthcoming book <a href="http://www.pccs-books.co.uk/products/therapy-futures/#" target="_blank">Therapy Futures</a> and previously <a href="http://www.pccs-books.co.uk/products/regulating-the-psychological-therapies-from-taxonomy-to-taxidermy/#.UF63CVEpXnj" target="_blank">Regulating the psychological
therapies.</a><br>
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In my experience your assumption...<br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">... that
self-determination, that is, autonomy (intrinsic
motivation), relatedness and competence is vital for
social justice where for individuals to be
self-determining, everyone else must be
self-determining.</font><br>
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...is very sound. <br>
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A critical other dimension is that the distribution of
power is constantly under scrutiny, ie that dominance
and subordination are eliminated. This doesn't mean that
hierarchies of experience and skill are eliminated but
that decision making is consensual. A tough task this
since domination often seems to me to be in the grain of
the times.<br>
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I hope this helps <br>
Denis<br>
denisATpostle.net<br>
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<div>On 23/09/2012 01:00, robin wrote:<br>
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<p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0pt" class="MsoNormal">I am researching (via a PhD with
the University of Tasmania) the idea of a
reputation metric as a currency in a complementary
currency project to test whether it would increase
trust and other prosocial behaviours in local
communities but most importantly to scale up trust
between people that don�t know each other. What
ideas do people have about how you would structure
a reputation metric in practice? My vague ideas at
the moment are that you could have resilience
circles, small groups of 20 to 30 people who would
meet once a month. They would act as support for
each other, but also the group would allocate a
score for individuals over the previous month
based on set criteria for how each have exchanged
with other people whether in the group or with
others in different groups against the criteria
which would attempt to vaguely measure autonomy,
competence and relatedness. My research is based
on the assumption that self-determination, that
is, autonomy (intrinsic motivation), relatedness
and competence is vital for social justice where
for individuals to be self-determining, everyone
else must be self-determining.</p>
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<div>Any advice appreciated, eg are there are other
groups that I could this to that might be
relevant? Do I need to supply more information?</div>
<div>Thanks & regards</div>
<div>Robin</div>
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